A.J. McLean: Self
Quotes
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A.J. McLean : We all claim to know everything about each other, but there's still so much left unsaid, so much left unlearned; so, while we were in London making the record, we talked about doing these little hometown trips to really kind of go back to our grass roots to kind of see where everybody really came from.
Kevin Scott Richardson : See the places, experience it together, and-and get that bond tight again.
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A.J. McLean : I'll never forget we did a show in a school that was 75% black, 20% hispanic, 5% white.
Kevin Scott Richardson : It was like a real inner city high school. Here we come, a bunch of corn-fed, like, middle-America, straight-off-the-farm boys - and our damn P.A. went out.
Brian Littrell : Music is like... vchooo.
Kevin Scott Richardson : We had no music, and it got out of hand.
Nick Carter : And I'll never forget there was a group of guys in the far back. They started booing us. "Get off the stage, white boys." You know, throwin' stuff at us.
Kevin Scott Richardson : "Booooo! Uh, New Kids on the Block wannabes. New Kids wannabes."
A.J. McLean : And we're up there on the stage, like, NOW what the fuck do we do? And Brian was like, "All right, everyone shut up, shut up, shut up!
Brian Littrell : "Let us just do what we came to do, that's sing for you."
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A.J. McLean : We ARE a vocal harmony group. We can sing without music at the drop of a hat.
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A.J. McLean : [in concert] How's everybody right...
A.J. McLean : [flings water on audience] ... DOWN in the FRONT?
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A.J. McLean : There was a lot of groups that came and went, you know, while we were doing our thing. We never went anywhere. We just kept on going. Twenty years is a long fucking time for anybody, let alone a... five bunch of dorks jumping around onstage, singin' and dancing.
